Ian asked for specific articles to back that up and the RMT chief could only say: "I'll tell you why. They report stories about immigrants, that they're spongers, that they make no contribution to society, when the opposite is true."

Andrew hit back: "This is the usual bile from the left wing, spraying the air with allegations with not a single fact to back it up."

Mr Hedley then said the Daily Mail never reported stories about white rape gangs and when Ian told him he was wrong and asked him another question, the union boss shouted to stop interrupting him and accused him of being in the "bourgeois right-wing media".

Things then got even more heated. Watch the full clip at the top of the page.

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